Chair of the session “Byzantine Eschatology”,
Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), University of Nottingham, England, and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Sparta, April 23–25, 2009.

Antiphony, Ritual and the Construction of Truth
Invited Presentation at the International Conference Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese, Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS), Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, England, and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Sparta, April 23–25, 2009.

The Anthropological Approach to the Mani Laments
Open speech at the Theatre Studies Department of Kardamyli High School, In the context of the Cultural Programme The Mani Laments. Kardamyli, April 10, 2009.

Book Presentation at an open event for the book Facing the Venetian Castle by Sokratis Kougeas.
DIPETHE Theater of Kalamata, November 30, 2008, Panhellenic Association of Women of Mani.

The Ethics of Antiphony: Women’s Discourse in Ancient and Contemporary Greece
Invited Presentation at the XIII International Meeting of Ancient Drama: Women in Ancient Drama. European Cultural Centre of Delphi – Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Delphi, July 2007.

The Antiphony of the Senses
Keynote Address at the Symposium/Seminar Media Ethnography: Transcultural Research Practice. Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology. Dublin, Ireland, March 29–31, 2007.

Phoning Divination: Evil Eye, Divination and the Networked Body
Presentation at the international meeting Media Technologies, Sensory Experience, and the Making of Religious Subjects.
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, March 30–April 1, 2006.

Antiphony, Ritual and the Construction of Truth
Invited Precentation at the International Symposium: Theatre and Ritual, September 10–12, 2005. Centre for Classical Drama, Panteion University and the Municipality of Thebes, Greece. September 10–12, 2005.

Medicine, Art and the Body
Invited presentation at the Benaki Museum, July 19, 2005. Philosophical Café . Benaki Museum & Centre for Cultural Studies, July 19, 2005

Book Presentation at an open event for the book The Woman-Lady of Messenian Mani by Sokratis Kougeas.
Kalamata, October 24, 2004, Panhellenic Association of Women of Mani.

Archaeology of Feeling: The Materiality of Memory
Keynote Address at the symposium Embodied Histories: Bodies, Senses, Memories in Archaeology and Anthropology. School of Archaeology, University of Southampton, England (Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK), January 24–25, 2003.

The Senses and Media as Material Culture – Fieldwork Approaches
Lecture Series as Le Boff Fellow 2002, at the School of Culture and Communication, New York University, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University, November 21, 2002.

Eros and Thanatos
Keynote Address. Greek-Scandinavian Conference “Sexualities and Society”, under the auspices of: Academy of Athens, University of Athens and Stockholm University. Athens: October 4–6, 2001.

The Battle of Dyros, Women’s Battle
Delivery of the ceremonial open address for the national anniversary of the Battle of Dyros (1826). Organized by: Prefectural of Laconia and the Municipality of Oitylo, Mani. Dyros, June 25, 2000.
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The Poetry of Dialogue: Contributions of Mani to Contemporary Europe
Public Talk. Organized by: GNTO Laconia, Prefectural Administration of Laconia and the Melina Mercouri Foundation. Within the framework of the European Day of Culture 2000: “Freedom of Expression and Dialogue.” Gytheio, May 2000.

Olive: A Historical and Cultural Harvest – Research on the Olive Mills of Messenia
Presentation at the interdisciplinary conference “The Olive and Olive Oil: From Antiquity to the Present Day.” October 1–2, 1999, Athens. Organizers: Academy of Athens / Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Musée de l’Olivier / Nyons, France, Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados / Barcelona, Spain, and the Greek Olive Museum, Crete.

The Age of the Ladies
Talk at the symposium – public event “In the – Maria Basakari of Kalamata.” February 28, 1999. Research, text for the accompanying documentary, organization: C. Nadia Seremetakis. Department of Cultural Studies, Kalamata. See here

March 23, 1821 and European Politics,
Kalamata, March 1998. Department of Cultural Studies. See here

Book Presentation at a public event for the book Shadows in the Peristyle by Giorgos Papachristou,
Kalamata, April 24, 1998.

Philosophical-Poetic Journeys in Space and Time
Presentation at the multimedia conference the context of the programme “Excavating Time”. Department of Cultural Studies Discourse Sector, DEPAK & Prefecture Administration of Messenia. See here

History and Material Culture in Messenia
Presentation at the multimedia conference in the context of the cultural programme “Excavating Time”. Department of Cultural Studies,DEPAK, March 14–26, 1997. See here

Earthquake: Popular Memory and the Poetics of Fragments
Presentation at the conference-public event “The City Remembers: Kalamata 10 Years Later – The Earthquakes of ’86”. Kalamata, November 1996. Department of Cultural Studies, DEPAK.Speech SectorSee here

Visible Risk: HIV/AIDS and the Cultural Dimension of the Body
Presentation at the “Educational Seminar on AIDS”, National School of Public Health, January 1996.

Politicizing Experience: Critical Reflections on Subjectivity and Locality
Invited Talk-Commentary on the papers presented in the session “Politicizing Experience: Critical Reflections on Bodies and Histories, Subjectivity and Locality”. Under the auspices of the American Ethnological Society and the Society for Medical Anthropology, at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 1995.

Women and the Pathogenic on the Border
Presentation at the University of Zagreb, international conference “Gendered Violence: Physical Aggression, Social Domination, Bodily Processes and Cultural Reconstruction.” Organized by: The Institute for Applied Social Research, University of Zagreb, and Center for Slavic and East European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Zagreb, 1995.

AIDS & Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Prevention in Border Areas – The Case of Greece
Invited Talk – participation as representative of the Greek Ministry of Health, “Workshop on HIV/AIDS/STD Prevention in Border Areas” – with representatives from Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Russia, Albania, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. International Meeting on AIDS Prevention, World Health Organization (WHO), Athens: October 1994.

Greek-Albanian Border – Conflict and Cultures
Presentation in the session “Receptions of Violence: Reactive After-Texts, After-Images and the Post-Ethnographic Site”. Co-organizer: C. Nadia Seremetakis. Ethnological Society and Society for Humanistic Anthropology, at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, 1994.

The Senses in Other Modernities
Presentation in the session “The Anthropology of the Senses and European Modernity”. Organizer and Chair: C. Nadia Seremetakis, Society for the Anthropology of Europe, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 1991.

Feminism and Women’s Identities – Case Study: Greece
Presentation in the session of the same name. Chair: C. Nadia Seremetakis. Fourth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Hunter College, New York, 1990.

Religious and Medical Colonization of Death in Southern Greece
Presentation in the session “Theorizing Europe: Anthropological Modernities.” Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, 1989.

Greek and Greek-American Women in Voice and Text
Keynote Address at the first multimedia interdisciplinary conference of the Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies & New York University. Organizer: C. Nadia Seremetakis. April 1989. See here

Women, Divination and the Cultural Construction of Death in the S. Peloponnese
Presentation in the session “Women in the Creation and Transmission of Culture”. Chair: C. Nadia Seremetakis. Third International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, University of Dublin, Ireland, 1987.

Cross – Cultural Problems in a Literacy – ESL Curriculum
Lecture. Department of Linguistics, Queens College, City University of New York, May 10, 1983.